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| author |   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2009-12-04 11:06:57 -0500 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-11 11:24:55 -0800 |
| commit | 3589972e51fac1e02d0aaa576fa47f568cb94d40 (patch) | |
| tree | 05e89c751f410a3b54583f948ff9ffc841c333ea /drivers/staging | |
| parent | Driver Core: Early platform driver buffer (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-3589972e51fac1e02d0aaa576fa47f568cb94d40.tar.xz linux-dev-3589972e51fac1e02d0aaa576fa47f568cb94d40.zip | |
Driver core: fix race in dev_driver_string
This patch (as1310) works around a race in dev_driver_string(). If
the device is unbound while the function is running, dev->driver might
become NULL after we test it and before we dereference it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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